VRSN
VeriSign Inc.
Is VRSN Halal?
Neutral internet infrastructure is permissible, but current asset-based debt and liquidity ratios fail the examined limits.
What You Should Know
VeriSign's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports 137.90% interest-bearing debt/assets, 42.89% cash plus marketable securities/assets and 37.62% receivables-plus-cash/assets. The .com and .net registry business is generally permissible, but the senior notes and liquidity ratios fail the examined asset-based screens.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Interest-bearing debt/assets is 137.90%
- •Cash plus marketable securities/assets is 42.89%
- •Downstream domain use and market-cap methodology remain separate qualitative questions
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.
1,788.8 / 1,297.2
556.4 / 1,297.2
488 / 1,297.2
5.2 / 428.9
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 137.90% and liquidity/assets is 42.89%, both above the examined limits; receivables plus cash/assets is 37.62% and interest income/revenue is 1.21%.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets and liquidity/assets exceed the examined MSCI total-assets limits; this is not an index-membership claim.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets and liquidity/assets exceed the examined SAC financial limits; this is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed reproducible market-cap history is not stored; a spot estimate is not substituted.
Business-activity disclosure
VeriSign operates the .com and .net domain registries and related internet infrastructure. Neutral registry infrastructure is generally permissible, while downstream domain uses and the filing's market-cap denominator remain outside this record.
Limitation: The filing does not quantify downstream prohibited domain use or provide a reproducible market-cap denominator history.
Purification
Interest income of 5.2 million is disclosed, but no fixed purification percentage is prescribed; investors should seek qualified guidance.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from VeriSign's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Interest-bearing debt is long-term senior notes of 1,788.8; deferred revenue and operating liabilities are excluded.
- Cash is 476.7 and marketable securities, primarily U.S. Treasury debt securities, are 79.7.
- Accounts receivable is 11.3 and quarterly revenue is 428.9.
- Interest income is 5.2, or 1.21% of quarterly revenue.
This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.
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